Question

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Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about 250 words each:

a) Smoking is hazardous and the dangers of smoking are very serious. It can lead to both major and minor health problems for the smokers. A smokers inhales a substance containing about 43 cancer-causing compounds besides four hundred other toxins including nicotine and tar. Nicotine leads to smoking addiction. Tar clogs the lungs and inhibits the body’s capacity to breathe; it causes lung and throat cancer, heart disease, emphysema, bronchitis, and lung disorders. Another thing is people who don’t smoke also suffer the effects of passive smoking through breathing in “second-hand smoke” from smoker’s cigarettes. There may still be smoke particles in the air even if it doesn’t seem smoky. One of the dangers of passive smoking is that particles from smoke in the air are smaller than in smoke drawn directly from a cigarette and can penetrate deeper into the lungs. A non-smoker who lives with a smoker may be exposed to about 1% of their tobacco smoke from passive smoking. This can increase their chances of developing lung cancer or dying from a heart attack. The same applies to people who work in a smoky atmosphere. These are the reasons why I think that smoking is very dangerous.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

These are the various types of writing,

1-Expository : In the given paragraph the writer uses this style of writing with the aim to inform or explain the subject to the reader.

This is expository because it uses information and uses definition to explain to the reader about why is smoking hazardous.

2- It also makes use of descriptive style of writing because it described the effects, Example: "The  thing is people who don’t smoke also suffer the effects of passive smoking through breathing in “second-hand smoke” from smoker’s cigarettes."

It looks at many aspects, uses arguments which supports the claim that smoking is injurious to health.